Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-28

| damage, and wishing some one else q
calamity, and we ourselves reealpg for
giveness for ten thousand times ten
thousand obliquities of heart and life.
When our last hour comes, we want 1t TO
| find US all right. Hardly anything affects
me so much in the uncoyering of ancient
Pompeii as the account of the soldier who,
after the city had for many centuries been
covered with the ashes and scorise of
Vesuvius, was found standing in his
place
ON GUARD,
! hand en- spear and helmet on head. 9th
ers fed at the awful submergement, but
the explorer, seventeen hundred years sf-
ter, found the body OF that brave fellow
in right position. And il will be grand
thing If, when our last moment comes,
We are found in right position toward the
world, as well as in the right position to-
ward God, on guard and uuafrighted By
the ashes from the mountain of death.
do not suppose that an any more of a
coward than most people, but I declare
70 you that I woult not dare to sleep to-
night if there were any being in all the
earth with whom l would rot gladly
shake hands, lest, during the night hours,
my spirit dismissed to other resins, I
should, because OF my unforgiVing spirit,
be denied divine forgiveness.
"But," says some woman, "there is q
horrid creature that has so injured me
that rather than make up with her I would
die first" Well, sister, you may take
your choice-for one or the other it will
be-your complete pardon of her or Gods
eternal punishment of you. "But," says
some man, "thst fellow VINO cheated me
out of those goods, or damaged my bust
ness credit. or started that lie about me
in the newspapers, or By mis- perfidy broke
up my domestic happiness, forgive him l
can not, forgive him will not" Well,
brother, take your choice. You will
never be at peace with God till you are at
peace with man. Feeling as you now do,
you would not get so near the harbor OF
heaven as to see the nghtship. Better
leave that man with God who said:
"Vengesnce is mine, will repay" You
may say: Twill
MAKE HIM SWEAT
for that yet, l will make him squirm,
mean to pursue him to the DEATH" but
you are damaging yourself more than you
damage him, and you are making heaven
for your own soul an impos5ibility. II he
Will not be recoDcliet 10 you, be recon
ciled to him. In five or six hours it will
be shutdown. The dahlias will bloom
agsinst the western sky, Somewhere be-
tween this and that take s. shovel and
bury the old quarrel at least six feet deep.
''Let not the sun go down upon your
wrath"
"But," you say, 81 have more than l
can bear; too much is put upon me and
an not to blame if l am somewhat re-
vengeful and unrelenting." Then 1 think
of the little child at the moving OF some
goods from store. The father was put
ting some rolls of goods on the chiId's
arm, package after package, and some
one said: "That child is being overloaded
snd so much ought not to be put upon
her," when the child responded: ''Father
knows now much l can carry" and God,
our Father, will not allow too
much imposi ion on his chill
dren. In the day OF eternity
it will be found that you had not one an
/ uoyance too many, not one eX2spey alton
too many, not one outrage too many.
Your heavenly Father knows how much
you can carry.
Again We ought not to allow the pas
sage of the sunset hour before the dis
missal of all our affronts, because we
may associate the subIimest action of
the soul with the sublimest specta-
Gle in nature. 1t is most delightsome
thing to have our personal experiences
allied with certain objects. There is q
tree or river bank where God first an
swered your prayer. You will never pass
| that place or think Of that place without
thinking of the glorious communion
| There was some gate, or some room, OF
some garden walk, wnere you were aft
snced with the companion who has been
your chief joy inslife. You never speak
OF that place bus with smile. Some Of
you have pleasant memories connected
with
THE EVENING STAR,
or the moon in its first quarter, or with
the sunrise, because you saw it Just as
you were arriving st maroon after q
teDpestuous voyage. Forever and for
ever, 0 hesrer, associate the sunset with
your magnGnimous, out and out, IN
| limited remuneration of sll hatreds and
forgiveness of all foes. admit it is the
most difficult Of ell graces to practice,
and 81 she start you may make COM
plete failure, bat keep on. in the attempt
| To practice it. Shakespeare wrote ten
| plays before he reached Hamlet, and
seventeen plays before he reached Mer-
chant of Venice, and twenty eight plays
| before he reached Macbeth. And grsdu-
| sliY you will come from the easier graces
to the most difficult. Besides that, it is
not matter of personal determination
so much as the laying hold Of the al
nightly arm OF God, who will help Us to
do anything We ought to do. Remember
that in all personal controversies the one
least to blame will have to take the first
step at pacifcation, II it is ever effec-
| tive. The contest between AeschineS
and Aristippus resounds through history,
| but Aristippus, who was least to blame,
went to Aeschines and said: "ShalI we
not agree to be friends before we make
ourselves the laughing stock Of the
whole country" Aud Aeschines said !:
sfThou art far better man than l, for l
began the quarrel, but thou has been the
first in healing the BREACH" and they
were always friends afterwards. So let
the one of you that is least to blame take
the first step toward cOnciliation. The
one most in the wrong will never take it.
Oh, it makes one feel splendidly to be
able, by Gods help, to practice unlimited
forgiveness. It improves ones body and
soul. cit will make you measure three or
tour more inches around the chest, and
Improve your respiration SO that you can
! take deeper and longe: breath. It i'm
proves the countenaEce by scattering the
gloom and Frightening the forehead, and
loosening the pinched look about the